‘It has been dominated by the IMF and the Anglo-Americans, by the English-speaking oligarchical factions, financial oligarchical factions of the world.’
‘The central institution of that oligarchical power, in the continent of Europe, is the central banking system.’
‘Yes, you had right-wing forces, you called them, or the oligarchical or wealthy forces.’
‘So, the intent was, from before the end of World War II, the intent of this circle, in the United States and Britain, was to establish a permanent world empire, of English-speaking power, oligarchical power.’
‘There is a natural-law conception of economics, as opposed to a Venetian-style, oligarchical, financier conception.’
‘The mass media are controlled by a financier oligarchical cabal.’
‘The other system, is the system under which man is subjected to the oligarchical conception, which is what we have today.’
‘This economic boom, however, contained the seeds of the destruction of the oligarchical order.’
‘A retrograde and oligarchical government has just been overthrown by the heroic people of Paris.’
‘Two Acts, in 1856 and 1877, did much to break the oligarchical nature of the government of the university.’
‘But Sparta, the champion of oligarchies, set up an oligarchical regime whenever it took control of a city.’
‘Great Britain was a prime example of the constitutional, representative, oligarchical system.’
‘It is of especially questionable value in today's world, when so many countries are in fact only shell democracies, in which democratic government acts as a cover for oligarchical rule.’
‘‘The Republic’ is nothing but a nightmarish vision of a totalitarian society ruled by an oligarchical elite, devoid of all respect for individual rights and freedom.’
‘In addition, the fewer people involved in making decisions, the more oligarchical and less susceptible to democratic pressures the system becomes.’
‘Despite the personal motives of those that create file-sharing Web sites or of those that consume free music, the fact that their actions offend the oligarchical music industry makes their behaviour political.’
‘The institutions set up to run the common market were exclusively oligarchical; none was elected, and all governed, and still do, in the interests of the world's rich against the interests of the world's poor.’
‘These results, combined with the ever-larger size of enterprises, point toward a greater oligarchical control of both the state and the economy.’
‘Moreover, while some of the enterprises of the old oligarchical families were jeopardized by free trade, their personal fortunes were generally not.’
‘The eighteenth century will for ever be associated with the amusements of a fashionable oligarchical society, represented most notably in the prime of the first of the great spa towns.’
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